I Am Fed Up With The BMW Driver Attitude on my Daily Commute

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60 miles each way each day. 1 hour 10min to 2 hours depending on traffic, I can live with the trucks, vans (even white van man) and every other car driver on the road but I am sick to death of the inconsiderate profanities that are the BMW drivers. 5 and 7 series drivers seem to be the worst as well. Usually I can see the reflection of their Bald Executive head coming a mile off. 3 series drivers are usually too busy preening themselves in the rear view mirror to bother.

They tailgate, they undertake and they show no consideration for the other x thousand commuters.

A solid queue of traffic, across all three lanes yet they sit up peoples backsides or cut in and out like it will make a difference. Which it doesn’t. When the average speed is 30 – 50 mph why do they seem to expect to be able to slice through the traffic like no one else exists. In these conditions no matter how many car you manage to undertake at most you can shave a few seconds off your journey.

Even trucks and vans drive well enough in this sort of traffic. :eek:
 
I love the way that if you pass a BMW Driver (note: not all people who drive BMWs are "BMW Drivers"), then the highway code is out of the window until they get back past and settle down, then they slow down, you pass them again having not changes speed at all, and it starts all over again.
 
I'll second that. The number of BMW drivers that have "pretended" to pull out on me whilst filtering past them is alarming. It's not funny to move out of your lane into a motorcyclists path intentionally for ***ts and giggles.
 
Drive earlier. BMW drivers belive they can leave their house at 8:30 and arrive to the office 60 miles away by 8:45. :)

If you do this you'll only have to put up with the VW crew who still haven't realised they've been ripped off by an unwarranted badge reputation and really their car is no better than the Vauxhall Astra that just overtook them and cost £5k less. :p

*this does not apply to all BMW drivers. Just most of them.
 
I don't mind fast drivers, BMW drivers, etc., unless they're inconsiderate. If they're driving fast and I'm in the right hand lane, and there's more than enough space for me to move into the slower lanes, then what am I doing in the fast lane? So I move out of their way - which is fair enough, I'm not going to hold someone up out of arrogance.

But if I'm overtaking a lorry, I'm in a £600 Corsa, the last thing I want is some idiot up my rear end. I mean, what level of intelligence does it take for them to realise I CANT ACCELERATE ANY ****ING FASTER IN A RUSTY '93 1.4 CORSA?! By getting up my rear, they only end up delaying themselves for longer while I match the lorry's speed waiting for someone to get up their rear end, too. There's always a great sense of satisfaction as they overtake me with my middle finger pointing out at them.

I don't get in anyones way on purpose, but if someone's being a complete div they're not going to have me jumping out of their way for them. All they need is a little bit of patience sometimes.
 
I think that it is a control thing rather than a wanting to get there quicker thing. Not exclusively BMW drivers, and certainly not all of them, but there is something about that badge with attracts this kind of person.

I used to drive a commute in the evening when working nights that went down several long fastish roads, but with not much scope for overtaking. Many a time I would find myself behind a lone BMW which had been going about 50ish before I got there. On seeing me behind him he would then slow right down - sometimes as low as 30 (in a 60). (I should mention that I do not tailgate people). I would then be stuck behind said BMW for a couple of miles until there was a safe place to overtake. As soon as I overtake they would be doing 60+ glued to my rear bumber.

My theory is this... there are some people whose lives are so devoid of control (middle managers?) that they need to get some feeling of control by petty things like this. Not just sitting on someones tail trying to intimidate them into going faster than they want to, but also purposefully holding others up. i.e. they get their kicks out of controlling the pace that others travel. Bid sad really.
 
I use this BMW lane to my advantage. For some reason, at the slightest sign of traffic slowing or stopping, 99% of drivers dive into the outside lane to join the BMWs in anticipation of overtaking.

Inadvertently blocking up said lane with the end result of the middle lane or inside lane actually moving quicker as there is now only you, a rover 25 5 door in turquoise and a truck which already looks like it has been to the moon and back occupying it.

When the average speed drops to 50mph or less, which is most of the journey for me the inside lanes tend to move quicker as the trucks are within their speed/load capabilities. I prefer to be moving albeit slowly than stop start of the outside BMW lane.

You soon learn which junctions and stretches of M’way move quicker in which lane (to be clear on this I will stay in the same lane and not chop and change). Of course once the BMWs realise your moving they swing across from the outside lane that isn’t moving (without signalling despite the quality switch gear), into a 30mph stream causing me and anyone else to have to slam the brakes on.

[TW]Fox;10030801 said:
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You'll have to get used to threads like this. I just pretend to agree.
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Do you have any choice? :D

Still, you’re ok, since you have an old shape BMW (and have too many hairs on your head) ;). The prestige from having cars like BMWs and Mercs etc comes from having the latest shape and not really older than 3 years. From an executives point of view, if it is out of date or too old the prestige value drops into oblivion and it is merely a wanna-be who is driving. Similar to the “dress for the job you want not have” but wear a Burtons suit approach to their car ownership.

Which raises a good point. People who typify the BMW driver attitude in an old shape one, have all the substance but none of the style and, instead of acting up and driving with the BMW arrogance, come across as a road-rage induced nonce.
 
BigglesPiP said:
The BMW lane has moved, it's now taking the place of the Rover lane, jumping lengths of cars by undertaking.
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I'm quite shocked at how common undertaking is on the motorways I use often... You pull over to the next lane (while doing ~70) to allow merging traffic in, then some knob zips in and undertakes you at 80mph because the guys in the fast lane aren't speeding their nuts off :eek:
 
It's actually amazing the amount of funny looks you get by not driving a BMW like a ****. I indicate, I stop to let people out, I make room for people pulling in... you get some shocked expressions.
 
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